Personal Experience

Michael Stein has over 25 years’ experience in Nevada representing major national and international companies, financial institutions, regional banks as well as other lenders. Michael’s clients have also included owners and buyers of real estate, landlords, tenants, as well professional licensees, partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies and entertainers. Michael holds an AV Preeminent® Peer and Judicial Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®.

Michael’s practice includes real estate finance, construction lending, purchases, sales, leasing, and development issues; problem loan restructuring, creditors’ right issues, enforcement, foreclosures, and other business and contract law matters. Michael has experience helping companies with disputes involving zoning issues, First Amendment rights, defamation and business disparagement, rights of publicity and common law trademark and service mark rights, deficiency judgment actions, judicial foreclosures, and real estate. Michael also represents professional license holders before regulatory boards.

While a partner at the prestigious law firm Snell & Wilmer, Michael served as the Las Vegas office’s loss prevention and ethics counsel. In 2008, Michael founded Paint the Town^SM—an annual one night only pop-up fine art gala and auction benefiting local charities. Event sponsors have included Back Bar USA®, Zappos®, FIJI® Water, Snell & Wilmer Law Offices, Clear Counsel Law Group, and the Stein Law Group.

Education

• J.D., 1992, University of California, Hastings College of Law
• B.B.A., Accounting, 1986, University of San Diego

Admissions

• Supreme Court of Nevada
• Supreme Court of the United State of America
• United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
• United States District Court, District of Nevada
• United States District Court, District of Arizona (limited admission to litigate an Arizona case)

Professional Memberships & Activities

• State Bar of Nevada
• American Bar Association, Business, Litigation, and Intellectual Property Sections

Community Involvement

• Chair and Founder, Paint the Town^SM Annual Charitable Art Gala benefiting Project Imagine